About the artwork
For the retirement home of the TW Termaatstichting at the 's-Gravenwetering in Kralingen, the Rotterdam sculptor Henk Mooij made a ceramic tile tableau. The wall is 7 meters wide and 3 meters high and is located to the left of the entrance on the east side of the building. The architect E. van de Ree longed for a relief that would be one with the building in terms of shape and color. The approach of the artist, who enjoyed great freedom, has been considered. He set himself the goal by connecting in his composition the strong horizontal of the low wing and the no less strong vertical of the high-rise. “Both the colors and the structure of the glazes are richly varied, sometimes even strikingly beautiful, both in the blues and in the strong reds. The single color in between, which in itself seems less successful, nevertheless gets its value harmoniously in the whole“, Says Piet Begeer The Free People June 23, 1961.
About the artist
Henk Mooij (Rotterdam, 1930 – 2015) is a sculptor, ceramicist, monumental artist, and spatial designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam from 1949 to 1953. His work developed towards outdoor objects, via consciously eclectic work to conceptual constructivism. In the Rotterdam area and also in his later hometown of Drunen, he created several wall sculptures and reliefs for public spaces. He says of his work: "It consists of forms in space that are clearly constructed from separate components. Through their organization, they form a whole, just as bricks arrange themselves into a wall with a masonry pattern. My forms are geometric, sometimes distorted by external forces such as pressure, tension, and gravity."
About the artwork
For the retirement home of the TW Termaatstichting at the 's-Gravenwetering in Kralingen, the Rotterdam sculptor Henk Mooij made a ceramic tile tableau. The wall is 7 meters wide and 3 meters high and is located to the left of the entrance on the east side of the building. The architect E. van de Ree longed for a relief that would be one with the building in terms of shape and color. The approach of the artist, who enjoyed great freedom, has been considered. He set himself the goal by connecting in his composition the strong horizontal of the low wing and the no less strong vertical of the high-rise. “Both the colors and the structure of the glazes are richly varied, sometimes even strikingly beautiful, both in the blues and in the strong reds. The single color in between, which in itself seems less successful, nevertheless gets its value harmoniously in the whole“, Says Piet Begeer The Free People June 23, 1961.
About the artist
Henk Mooij (Rotterdam, 1930 – 2015) is a sculptor, ceramicist, monumental artist, and spatial designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam from 1949 to 1953. His work developed towards outdoor objects, via consciously eclectic work to conceptual constructivism. In the Rotterdam area and also in his later hometown of Drunen, he created several wall sculptures and reliefs for public spaces. He says of his work: "It consists of forms in space that are clearly constructed from separate components. Through their organization, they form a whole, just as bricks arrange themselves into a wall with a masonry pattern. My forms are geometric, sometimes distorted by external forces such as pressure, tension, and gravity."
